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Puffio Theatro.
Horror films may be more successful the shorter they are, as the plethora of festivals and awards devoted to the horror short will attest. Short films are cheaper to shoot, easier to distribute, and may be more successful at scaring the bejesus out of the audience. Aspiring filmmakers among you who have taken to heart the lessons of young horror mavens Jake Kennedy and C. J. Roy (whose shorts 'We All Fall Down' and 'Roadside Attraction' have achieved cult status) may be interested in submitting something to our own film festival Trasharama. The deadline is 10 Sep, so get your nasty, nasty shorts finished as soon as possible; more details at www.trasharama.com.au. And, for the more serious and worthy of you, there's 'Landmines: A Love Story' at the Mercury from Tue 23 to Sun 28 Aug, while Cinematheque at the Mercury this week is La Sorie Noir: stylish crime thrillers 'The Red Circle' (Jean-Paul Melville, 1970), starring the unbeatable Gallic duo Yves Montand and Alain Delon; and 'Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes' (Jules Dassin, 1955). They're on Mon 29 Aug and Thu 1 Sept respectively. Here's a still from 'The Red Circle':
Theatresports is back with a celebrity tournament to raise money
for the Humour Foundation, which sends clown doctors into hospitals
to cheer up sick kids. (Although, given that the 'evil doctor'
trope is nearly as widespread throughout Westen popular culture
as the 'evil clown' trope, clown doctors might be ultimately
so terrifying to the poor children as to prove seriously threatening
to their health.) Featuring such luminous and glittering stars
as Matt Byrne and Jane Reilly AND a team comprised entirely
of radio breakfast personalities, Theatresports is sure to have
you literally retching with laughter. Be at Jive on Sun 28 Aug.
The Fringe 'FreshBAIT' programme is looking for emerging artist to showcase in 2006. Head over to www.adelaidefringe.com.au for your chance to participate. And congratulations to Windmill Performing Arts for winning the 2005 Helpmann award for Best Presentation for Children, for their acclaimed production 'Riverland'. Still on the topic of local theatre: 'Significant Others', a new play by award-winning local playwright Sean Riley, will be performed by Oddbodies Theatre Company at the Bakehouse Theatre from Wed 24 Aug until Sat 3 Sept.
The Macquarie Trio Australia will perform 'Night Song', a program
of mysterious and eerie night-inspired music, including Beethoven's
'Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 1' (otherwise known as 'The Ghost') and
Schubert's 'Adagio D. 897' ('Notturno'). Sun 4 Sept at 2:30
pm at the Elder Hall - and if this week's weather is anything
to go by, it should be dark enough even in the early afternoon
to be nicely spooky. On Fri 2 and Sat 3 Sept the ASO in conjunction
with young US conductor Edwin Outwater will present a program
of American music, along with Russian piano master Nikolai Demidenko,
back in Adelaide after nearly a decade to perform 'Rhapsody
On A Theme Of Paganini'.
At the Light Square Gallery from Thu 25 Aug until Wed 14 Sept you can see Noela Hjorth's exhibition 'Sophia's Sacred Cycle', an exploration of nature and technology. The Concertina collective present 'Salt Minds', an exploration of salt as a theme and a medium, at the Marion Cultural Centre until Sun 11 Sept. Or at Avalon Gallery in Hindley St from Fri 28 Aug you can see Lachlan Haig's theatrically-inspired exhibition 'Pippets, Poppets And Puppets'. Meanwhile, at Adelaide Central Gallery 2, there's 'Here We Are', an exhibition of the work of four former Central School of Art students, Ignacio Rojas-Corral, Deidre But-Husaim and Deborah Trusson and the brilliant (and hot) Morgan Allender. It's on until Sun 11 Sept. Here's an example ('Forgotten Colours' by Ignacio Rojas Corral):
The Booker Prize (arggh, sorry, Man Booker - I just can't get
used to the new corporate branding) long-list has been announced,
and it's pretty darn good (a big improvement on last year, if
Puffio might be allowed to venture, and an even bigger improvement
on that execrable and ill-fortuned year that the simpleminded
fable 'Life Of Pi' beat Rohinton Mistry's epic, tragic 'Family
Matters' - that's twice the jealous gods have denied Mistry
his rightful spoils, mind. The other time was 1996, when he
was beaten by Graham Swift's not-up-to-par 'Last Orders', OF
ALL THINGS). Julian Barnes is nominated for his newly-released
'Arthur And George' and Zadie Smith for her not-out-yet 'On
Beauty', along with Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan,
Ali Smith, John Banville, Hilary Mantel, and our very own adopted
pet J. M. Coetzee. Puffio would like to wish the very best of
luck to the incomparable Messrs. Barnes, Rushdie and Coetzee
(although, to be fair, he's already won it twice) and the charming
and witty Ms. Smiths (all of them from A to Z).
7 Arty things to do this week
1.
Two great docos at the Mercury: 'Children Of Tibet', until Sun 28 Aug; and 'A Century In Stone', from Tue 30 Aug to Tue 6 Sep. Go see them.
2.
The Flutes of Adelaide, from the Elder School of Music, are off to France! They'll be giving a farewell concert on Mon 5 Sept 2005 at 7.30pm in the Hartley Concert Room.
3.
The 'Big Issue' is turning three, and to celebrate they're having a party. It's on Thu 25th Aug from 11:30 to 1pm near the silver balls in Rundle Mall. In addition, they're having a fundraiser: a special preview screening of the new Australian film 'Little Fish' (starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving). It's on Mon 5 Sept at 6:45 pm at the Palace.
4.
A sci-fi Bollywood extravaganza? You bet! It's called 'Koi Mil Gaya', and it's on at the Mercury on Wed 31 Aug.
5.
Flamenco guitarist Paco Pena and his dance company are currently touring the country; they'll be in Adelaide on Sat 3 Sept at Her Majesty's Theatre.
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Or if photography's more your cup of tea, there's the Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection 10, on display in the Artspace at Adelaide Festival Centre from Sat 3 Sept until Sun 2 Oct.
7.
Rob Lockett's exhibition of photos and paintings is on at the Exeter until early September. You can't pretend you won't be there anyway, you bibulous sops, so you may as well check it out.
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